Friday, June 24, 2016

Another Dish

Early this morning, an eagerly-awaited installation began:
I have been looking forward to this day since last October when we were told there was no signal from the NBN tower at the end of the road, and we would have to wait for the satellite to be commissioned. (It had just been launched then.)

After a bit of testing:

It was time to point the dish at the Sky Muster satellite:
But we couldn't start surfing the internet immediately. The installer said it could take up to 5 hours for the service to be activated. That was disappointing.

Six or seven hours later, we were advised by our ISP that it might be some time next week before NBNCo do whatever they need to do to activate our internet. Much more disappointing!

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